Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-xiv

List of Contributors

pp xv-xvii

Map

pp xviii-xxi

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - Re-examining the Narratives

pp 9-10

1 - Greek and Latin Sources for the Norman Expansion in the South: Their Value as “Military Histories” of the Warfare in the Mediterranean Sea

pp 11-34

2 - “Conquest in Their Blood”: Hauteville Ambition, Authorial Spin, and Interpretative Challenges in the Narrative Sources

pp 35-54

3 - “The Arts of Guiscard”: Trickery and Deceit in the Norman Conquests of Southern Italy and Outremer, 1000–1120

pp 55-76

Part II - Cultural Representation and Diffusion

pp 77-78

4 - A Gift to the Normans: the Military Legacy of Sicilian Islam

pp 79-132

5 - Norman Battle Tactics in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations: Fighting Lombards, Greeks, Arabs, and Turks c.1050–c.1100

pp 133-150

6 - Venetian Reactions to the Normans of Southern Italy under Robert Guiscard: from Enmity to Congeniality

pp 151-174

Part III - Policies of Conquest, Consolidation, and Expansion

pp 175-176

7 - The Norman Kingdom of Sicily: Projecting Power by Sea

pp 177-194

8 - Norman Participation in the First Crusade: a Re-examination

pp 195-210

9 - Strategy, the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy, and the First Crusade

pp 211-224

10 - Disaster in the Delta? Sicilian Support for the Crusades and the Siege of Alexandria, 1174

pp 225-238

Bibliography

pp 239-250

Index

pp 251-252

Warfare in History

pp 253-254